Baby boomers as scapegoats? Why it doesn't help
For some, it's not complex systems but birth dates that determine who's "to blame for everything." But generation-bashing doesn't help anyone. A column.
Everything is gone and they are now happily being pushed around: the baby boomers Uwe Umstätter/imago
It happened around 1880, when Bolle Zampernick, a Berlin professor of generationalism, mourned the decline of his city. He could still remember his happy childhood: "In the garden behind the house were sheds and gardens. I bit into many a juicy apple there." But then builders came and slammed three rear buildings behind the house. Within 50 years, the city's population quintupled. It became a city of millions, with noise, dirt, and crazy traffic.
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